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Until one has loved an animal, part of the soul remains unawakened

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Until one has loved an animal, part of the soul remains unawakened

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Happy Cat Lady

Aug 26, 2009

Calico Birthday

Today is Keli's birthday. She would have been twenty years old. For the longest time, I had confused her birthday with my daughter's which would have been a few days later, but having found my diary, there it was. Keli was born on the 26 th.

I called Xavier and told him I would be driving Keli's poster up to his house. It wouldn't matter if he were home or not. I would just drop it off. I was too stressed out about asking Kats too ship it, to find a correct way to wrap it according to his, fedex, standards.

Even though I have found working on this fulfilling, I have also had this underlying inexplicable stress. Perhaps my medicine? Perhaps because I totally forgot to go to the animal shelter to attend the training night so I could be a volunteer there? No... more probably all the fires. The Bonny Doon fire... I mean the Lockheed fire. Why did they change the name? even though I do not live close to Bonny Doon, the winds blew the smoke and ash southerly right across the bay. Asthma all messed up. Stress. Then, there was the Gloria fire that burned south of here about 50 miles and the stench from that was worse. My breathing suffers. Locked in the house, air conditioner on. It is stressful even going out to the car. Stressful to go to the grocery store. and discover that the air in the store is polluted, that children are screaming and running up and down the aisle, that parents are shouting at their kids. That three teenage boys are throwing a basketball at each other, that the announcements from the LOUD speaker are particularly LOUD! Stress.

I just want to get home. I want to get back to Keli, to loving her, to remembering her, to knowing how much she mattered to me as a daily presence of love and peace in my life. Now, gone.

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First Dowager Queen, Keli

Isn't she the most beautiful cat you have ever seen? I am broken hearted that she is gone. She was born in my hands and died in my arms. Any posts made on this blog from this point on will be my own. Well, unless she speaks to me from beyond the grave! Oh my Darling Clementine. You are gone and lost forever.... August 26, 1989 - March 18, 2009

About the Original Dowager Queen

She was considered dead before birth. She was the last kitten in the litter, still left in her mother's womb. No sign of contractions. Mama cat (Gypsy) was taken to the emergency vet who pronounced "dead kitten" and gave her a shot of pitocin. The vet said if the kitten was not expelled in 3 hours she would have to return for an emergency C-section or Gypsy would die. Within 3 hours contractions produced my living, breathing Calico Kitten, Keli, who has been with me nearly 20 years.